Christopher F. Hoeber has been with Space Systems/Loral for 28 of his 33 years in the commercial satellite business. His current responsibilities as senior vice president, program management & systems engineering, include customer satisfaction; program profit; schedule and performance objectives; and planning and managing SS/L's R&D and product development activities. Most recently, Mr. Hoeber was vice president of business development for SS/L, which included marketing and sales. Prior to that, he held the position of chief engineer.

Throughout his career, Mr. Hoeber has served in systems test and engineering and program and functional management positions. He led the systems engineering team that developed SS/L's modern geostationary satellite platform, the 1300, and managed the first program to use that platform. Before joining SS/L in 1975, Mr. Hoeber was with Hughes Space and Communications Corp. for five years.

Mr. Hoeber has written extensively on the communications satellite industry and has contributed to a number of studies of export control and technology transfer. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University.